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ERNEST GRUENING was defeated for reelection to the Senate last year by a 38-year-old moderate who claimed to stand "more in the main-stream" of American opinion on Vietnam. The claim had at least the virtue of being true: at 82, Ernest Gruening has yet to join anyone...
Gruening was the first Senator to attack the war in Vietnam, and to this day remains the only member of the Senate to have demanded a U.S. withdrawal. His speeches against the war have a clear-sighted moral vigor that we have learned not to expect from our politicians.
Gruening does not even look like a Senator. He is a small man with large red ears and heavy jowls, and long feet which stick out at odd angles when he walks. His head, covered in the back with long white hair, rests heavily on his shoulders, and when he...
His voice is still firm, though; and when he begins to talk about the war and the draft, his boundless energy comes through. Gruening first denounced the war on the Senate floor in April, 1964, and has been attacking in tirelessly ever since. In all his conversation, he constantly comes...
ERNEST H. GRUENING was born in New York City in 1887, the son of a wealthy doctor. Attracted to Harvard by a talk given at his high school by a president of the Harvard Crimson named Franklin Roosevelt, Gruening enrolled here in the class of 1907, and later entered the...